THE TRIPP HOUSE
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unimoggers
N 41° 25.577 W 075° 40.180
18T E 444044 N 4586296
This marker is a 1993 replacement. What a grand home.
Waymark Code: WMW9V
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 10/24/2006
Views: 56
Marker Text:
Isaac Tripp, Scranton's first settler, built a house here in 1771. His son, Isaac II, began the present building--the oldest in Lackawanna County--about 1778. Both men represented this region in Connecticut's Assembly. Isaac III enlarged the house in the Federal style, 1812. Col. Ira Tripp remodeled it along Victorian lines during the period 1870-91. The house remained in the family until 1900.
Marker Name: The Tripp House
County: Lackawanna
Date Dedicated: 01/01/1993
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: 1011 N. Main Ave., Scranton
Category: Government & Politics, Government & Politics 18th Century
Website: [Web Link]
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